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[Xantalos]

Hunter on the Planes f Deception.

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[jetex1911]

Hunter of The Chronical Planes

[escaped lurker]

The Planes of Deception - Where nothing ever was as it seemed.

Well, I felt deceitfull with that plane, and decided to not hand out more hints. 

Ah, yes. The Life in The Planes of Deception is... deceitfull indeed. You actually posed as a Ruler there, all the while being one of the Hunters in reality. Or semi-reality, If you want so. Not that it made much of a difference, because everyone knows that no-one would normally be seen as what he truly is. A maddening place for others, you and your kind were quite content in it. Well, unless someone actually feasted on your energy, but with everyone being paranoid about what the others are, this was actually somewhat unlikely. But you hid your true Identity exceptionally well, and only very rarely suffered this fate. And dont even get yourself started on how you rule, if no-one is supposed to know it and you are not actually a ruler at all. That part was even maddening for yourself, and at the end you wondered if you ever really ruled at all, or if your ruling made any differences and was not lost in the sea of deception.

Spoiler: Unnamed Extraplanar (click to show/hide)

Status:
26/26   Health
21/21   Strength
56 /56  Energy


Attributes:
Power:     4
Speed:     7
Health:     5
Will:         8
Intellect:  10


Skills:
Extraplanar Deciever - 15
Extraplanar Hunter - 10
Extraplanar Ruler - 5

Abilities:

Deception:
Medium Shapeshifting - Deception - 20 Energy, Ritual
You are able to assume a form similiar to yours. You will gain the natural abilities of this form, if it has any. The assumed form need not to exist in reality. Needs 1 Hour to be completed.

Your favorite. Well, to be honest, the favorite of everyone on your plane. Unless a being with no weakness would exist, it could not survive on the plane of deception. While you are already sufficiently skilled in this ability, the truly great ones on your plane are even able to assume forms that are bigger or smaller than them. You sure are interested how strong the deceptional powers of the Planars on these Plane are.
Deception - Deception - 2 Energy per affected being
You are able to decieve others, by confusing their senses with your abilities. Every 3 Will allow another being to be decieved without Malus.

Your kind mostly use it to cause a distraction, or to temporarily hide something that you are doing. That you are doing something is obvious, for the flow of energy is far less decepive than your kind would like. On the other hand, being decieved without knowing that deception is at work, would be fearsome indeed.
Greater Deception - Deception - 10 Energy
You are able to decieve all in the vicinity with your abilities. Needs physical contact with the object. Only one Sense will be affected.

Another Stock-Ability of your kind. True enough, most were able to sense that something was wrong, and many were even able to tell what was wrong, but the moment a presumed Hunter impaled himself on a "pole", because it thought the deception of a "pole" you had cast on it would mean it certainly could no be it, was rewarding indeed. Well, the Energy and win of your Intellect was. You heard of simpler fools running into obstacles that were made invisible, but doubt it to be more than a joke.
Hunting
Cleaving Strike - Hunting - 3 Strength
Just as it sounds like. A very strong cleaving attack.

Well, what else would you hunt with? That being said, it was one of your most glorious moments when one of your followers revealed iself as being a Hider. It was subsequently devoured by you. Obviously you cleaved it up for good!
Sneaking Dash - Hunting - 1 Strength every 5 Meters
You approach your target somewhat soundlessly, but fast at the same time.

One of the major bottlenecks of hunting is - besides the deception of forms - the need to even hunt with deception, once you aquired the hint that your target may be hunte-able for you. You vouch for this way of approaching, thou others tend to cloak themselves and the are in even deeper illusions. While they might be a bit more successfull than you, the energy they waste by that is exeptional. At least in your eyes. Or the glowing mounds that pass for them, that is.Ruling
Voice of Reason - Ruler - 2 Energy, 4 Strength
You are most proficient in proving your point.

This ability of yours may sound iffy to those of lower mind, but you can assure them that it is indeed one of your most powerfull assets. And as soon as you use it on them, they in fact will believe it to be the truth! Obviously you would need to send it in an unassuming package, and they would need to gain some thing or the other from believing so, but that is just the average-day level of deception.

Oh my, after carefull inspection it seems that there are more planars than first met your sensory organs. On that matter, you yourself are a shapely round form, with protective plates covering your body. Your long finger-like behind-appendages jut out straight from your body, with what those planars would consider as your arms, being two large cleavers. The planars would later kin you to reptiles, but you would consider this an affront - they are vastly different from you, like anything on this plane is.

Anyways, there are 5 fingercounts of these creatures, each standing at another corner of the formation that they used to summon you. Currently they are invoking some kind of energy, thou it feels very alien to you. The one that previously waved arround its arms looks at you without pause, a clear sign that it has no hostility towards you whatsoever. Else it would try to make it clear that it is in fact not looking at you - basic logic on your plane. You take this as a good sign for now.

With those planars having you outnumbered 20 to 1, It might be a good idea to act now. Whatever that act may be.

[Cheesecake]

Use Greater Deception on the floor to make it appear as if though it were made of flesh and had arms grabbing at the enemy Planars.

[escaped lurker]

Use Greater Deception on the floor to make it appear as if though it were made of flesh and had arms grabbing at the enemy Planars.

While I certainly could do that, It stands to reason that they just might see through such a low deception. It should also be noted that the illusion would only affect one of their senses, unless I cast multiple of them. (Eh, guess I forgot to mention that..) Wich has a good chance of going wrong - I am a Hunter, and not much of a Hider or Hunted. True enough, from what I would have heard our plane is more on the side of energy, than physical, but that does not mean that everyone is born with the capacy to wield it in spectacular ways.

Now that we are talking about deceptions, do not think that I would not suspect one going on here. He might stare at me amiably, but I am quite aware that this just might be a bluff. A lower-level one, but who knows how deceptive the Planars are. Well, I think this will be solved shortly.

It might also be the time to think of a name, and the way in wich I speak. Not trying to be noisy, just giving a reminder is all.

[Harry Baldman]

Use Greater Deception to create the most menacing-sounding nearby rumble (auditory deception) this world might ever know, seemingly originating from some distance behind the other planars. Combine it with underlying tones of creatures from the Plane of Very Unpleasant Feelings (which may or may not exist) unpleasantly shrieking at the top of their unpleasant lungs. This should prove distracting while we assume a name and ascertain what might or might not be happening here.

As for what name to assume, go with something overly dramatic and extraplanar-sounding. Like Morthogg Magicface or whatever.

If the distraction works, take stock of the present planars.

[escaped lurker]

Only that much to work with means the dice choose. Not that It went for he worse, but just saying.
I also did change our perspective a bit. Not going to bother with the existing posts, at least for now.
Plane of Strangely-Appendaged Planars - First Ebbing

Pondering over what to use against the planars, I actually think about sending them an auditory scream, close to that rumored "Plane shaped of Torment". Seeing as I have no way of knowing for sure if they have the ability to pick up sound, I decide to use Greater Deception on the ground. I turn it into flesh, and to top it of let arms of flesh sprout from it to grab and flail at them. -10 Energy

I pull it off, but it certainly is not my best work - my energy being somewhat odd is to blame. The "Energy" of this plane being a bit different is actually not odd at all - considering the amount of planes that exist, there even might be those that would be incompatible with my way of doing things.

The Planars were obviously completely unprepared for such deceit, and their formation collapses in horror and screams. After a few seconds one of the others who did not break formation is able to calm them, and his auditory grunts make it known to me that the use of sound would have not been lost on them.

In the confusion I take a good look at the gathered planars. All of them seem to be devoid of armoured platings covering their body, but maybe their coating is enough protection on its own. Half of them seem to have a stingers or cleaver latched unto their measly outer shell, and without knowing their power I am not sure if I want to test my luck. They also come in a small variety of sizes and colours, with some sporting some kind of additional shell atop of the appendage that seems to hold their sensory organs. Some only have a little of it, and it mostly is greenish, brownish or yellowish. I suspect that it might have to do with their rank, seeing as the one who first "approached" me had none of it. On that note, I choose a temporary name of this plane of my own choosing. Maybe I will change my mind about it later, but for now it will be "The Plane of Strangely-Appendaged Planars"

I also try to move, lest they have bound me in place. This seems to be the case, because something definetly is holding me there. As I try to propell myself away with my four grabbers, they only scratch over the strangely detailed surface - and ominous sign indeed. With no way of drifting away, it might be a good time as any to communicate with them. I am not sure if my voice will reach them, but trying should not hurt. Well, maybe it could, but that certainly would not be a bad thing at all - talking does cost almost no energy after all. For that purpose, I will take the name of Morthogg for now.

I have succeded in decieving those Planars, and accertained that they are able to see and hear. While I was able to stop the presumed Ritual currently taking place, they seem to have bound me already with another spell.

You have gained the following Ability:

Mindspeaker - Extraplanar - Passive
While I have heard of other ways of communication, this one is common on my homeplane.

Sure enough, one can still find out wich way the talker is, but if applied with wit the being recieving the message will be non the wiser. At least Hunters like I often enough talk our prey into confusion. Well, rather like "more confusion than already exists at any given point in time", but I hope you get the picture.

Spoiler: Morthogg (click to show/hide)

Status:
26/26   Health
21/21   Strength
46 /56  Energy


Attributes:
Power:     4
Speed:     7
Health:     5
Will:         8
Intellect:  10


Skills:
Extraplanar Deciever - 15
Extraplanar Hunter - 10
Extraplanar Ruler - 5

Abilities:

Deception:
Medium Shapeshifting - Deception - 20 Energy, Ritual
I am able to assume a form similiar to mine. I will gain the natural abilities of this form, if it has any. The assumed form need not to exist in reality. Needs 1 Hour to be completed.
Deception - Deception - 2 Energy per affected being
I am able to decieve others, by confusing their senses. Every 3 Will or 5 Levels in Deception allow another being to be decieved without Malus.
Greater Deception - Deception - 10 Energy
I am able to decieve all in the vicinity. Needs physical contact with the object. Only one Sense will be affected.
Hunting
Cleaving Strike - Hunting - 3 Strength
Just as it sounds like. A very strong cleaving attack.
Sneaking Dash - Hunting - 1 Strength every 5 Meters
I approach my target somewhat soundlessly, but fast at the same time.
Ruling
Voice of Reason - Ruler - 2 Energy, 4 Strength
I am most proficient in proving my point.
Special Abilities
Mindspeaker - Extraplanar - Passive
While I have heard of other ways of communication, this one is common on my homeplane.

[~Neri]

Use fingerarms as legs and move away from them screeching menacingly, or failing that talk to them with our mind.

[escaped lurker]

Plane of Strangely-Appendaged Planars - First Ebbing

Not about to be defeated by one mishap, I try to move with my grabbers, and am successfull. Somewhat. I think I am about ten times slower than on my homeplane, and any notion of drifting is not existant. Now that I ponder the matter, the Planars are not drifting around either, and have their stumps placed on the ground. It seems they have enchanted the whole area.

They still are a rather dishelved group of sorts, especially since the deception is still at work. Only three of them seem to be in a collected state of mind, grunting obnixiously and I even see one of them forking its upper side-appendage over the top-appendage of another planar. Multiple times. Strange beings indeed.

I think this might be a good time to at least leave the field sustraining my movement, and do make way for what seems to be the exit. The whole place is strange indeed, and seems to be constructed out of small pieces of carefully crafted rocks. The brownish stuff covering the floor is beyond my reasoning thou.

My escape does not go unnoticed, with two of the planars grunting in even higher tones, and one of them getting in my way. It holds a stinger, wich obviously will reach me easily, constrained as I am. Seeing as it could not hurt either way, I send an angry "Out of my Way, Planar". It certainly has reached it, but as it just shifts the stinger higher, it does not seem to have had the desired effect.

Well, what should I do now? It might be prudent to test the power these planars hold in their appendages, but this might not be the best time to do so.

Spoiler: Morthogg (click to show/hide)

Status:
26/26   Health
21/21   Strength
46 /56  Energy


Attributes:
Power:     4
Speed:     7
Health:     5
Will:         8
Intellect:  10


Skills:
Extraplanar Deciever - 15
Extraplanar Hunter - 10
Extraplanar Ruler - 5

Abilities:

Deception:
Medium Shapeshifting - Deception - 20 Energy, Ritual
I am able to assume a form similiar to mine. I will gain the natural abilities of this form, if it has any. The assumed form need not to exist in reality. Needs 1 Hour to be completed.
Deception - Deception - 2 Energy per affected being
I am able to decieve others, by confusing their senses. Every 3 Will or 5 Levels in Deception allow another being to be decieved without Malus.
Greater Deception - Deception - 10 Energy
I am able to decieve all in the vicinity. Needs physical contact with the object. Only one Sense will be affected.
Hunting
Cleaving Strike - Hunting - 3 Strength
Just as it sounds like. A very strong cleaving attack.
Sneaking Dash - Hunting - 1 Strength every 5 Meters
I approach my target somewhat soundlessly, but fast at the same time.
Ruling
Voice of Reason - Ruler - 2 Energy, 4 Strength
I am most proficient in proving my point.
Special Abilities
Mindspeaker - Extraplanar - Passive
While I have heard of other ways of communication, this one is common on my homeplane.

[RAM]

Well it hasn't struck yet, so it can't be a hunter, and if it is there at all then it cannot be a hider. As a ruler it is entirely insufficient to be worthy of the title. It failed to obey as a slave, it is activvely preventing either of us from travelling and hasn't made any effort to track thus far, so it must be one of the hunted bluffing, rather poorly, that it is a ruler...

[Harry Baldman]

((What happened to "only one sense will be affected"? Are the arms purely visual?))

Use Deception on one of the relatively collected planars - cause it to perceive one other planar right next to him as a smaller version of yourself. See what happens.

[RAM]

Yes, but it is still freaky, and they cannot see the floor, so it will mess with their balance too

[escaped lurker]

((What happened to "only one sense will be affected"? Are the arms purely visual?))

((They are, but you are skilled in deceit - they flail in front of their faces, without touching them, or go for their eyes so that those shut and similiar. And they fell for it. Hard.))Plane of Strangely-Appendaged Planars - First Ebbing

Thinking about it, the planar is certainly hestitant to strike - It being a hunter would strike you as odd. It does not budge thou, so a hider, slave or hunted is also out of the question. By my previous estimates of rank, the brownish shell atop of its uppermost appendage also denotes it as not-a-ruler. By that logic it should be either a tracker or a traveler. Both beings I should be able to take. Well, but by that account it obviously could be decieving me, albeit those planars still struggling somehow would make me think otherwise. Pondering over the multitude of possibilities - as usual - does only limited good. Being a Hunter is hard work indeed.

Deciding it to be worth a try, I cast Deception on it, causing it to see the planar cowering near it as a smaller version of myself. It cast one glance at it, true enough. But then it`s gaze - or what I presume to be their field of vision - shifts back to me. It seems to have enough of my deceit, as it slowly steps closer to me, the stinger in its appendages. So it is a Hunter after all! Well, or posing as one in the hopes that I surrender myself. Anyways, I ready my cleavers in anticpation for now. -2 Energy

The - more or less - presumed Hunter closes in on me. What now?

Spoiler: Morthogg (click to show/hide)

Status:
26/26   Health
21/21   Strength
43 /56  Energy


Attributes:
Power:     4
Speed:     7
Health:     5
Will:         8
Intellect:  10


Skills:
Extraplanar Deciever - 15
Extraplanar Hunter - 10
Extraplanar Ruler - 5

Abilities:

Deception:
Medium Shapeshifting - Deception - 20 Energy, Ritual
I am able to assume a form similiar to mine. I will gain the natural abilities of this form, if it has any. The assumed form need not to exist in reality. Needs 1 Hour to be completed.
Deception - Deception - 2 Energy per affected being
I am able to decieve others, by confusing their senses. Every 3 Will or 5 Levels in Deception allow another being to be decieved without Malus.
Greater Deception - Deception - 10 Energy
I am able to decieve all in the vicinity. Needs physical contact with the object. Only one Sense will be affected.
Hunting
Cleaving Strike - Hunting - 3 Strength
Just as it sounds like. A very strong cleaving attack.
Sneaking Dash - Hunting - 1 Strength every 5 Meters
I approach my target somewhat soundlessly, but fast at the same time.
Ruling
Voice of Reason - Ruler - 2 Energy, 4 Strength
I am most proficient in proving my point.
Special Abilities
Mindspeaker - Extraplanar - Passive
While I have heard of other ways of communication, this one is common on my homeplane.

[RAM]

Deception: the pretending-to-be-a-hunter: a copy of us, standing passively where we are, but studying them very intently.
Sneaking Dash: Dash to the side and eat the appendage which holds the stinger.

[escaped lurker]

(( I decided that deception for 2 Energy is quite overpowered - will curb it up to 4 for now ))
Plane of Strangely-Appendaged Planars - First Ebbing

Well, there certainly do not seem to be that many options and thus I decide to cast a deception of myself truly onto the approaching planar. It goes very well, and I sneak away - well, at least from him. The others do not seem to care about me at the moment, and thus nobody informs the sucker of what is coming to him. Well, me, obviously. - 4 Energy

Sneaking in this non-drifting enviroment is somewhat exhausting, but I approach him without fail. There is no hestiation in my next move, and I cleave his appendage off most proficiently. The Planar starts to bellow out in a very high-pitched tone, quite worse than the others who are still caught in the Initial Deception. That being said, it will fall apart shortly, but I still decide to indulge in my snack - got to refill that lost energy somehow afterall. - 3 Strength

That is where the weird stuff beginns to happen. Instead of absorbing the appendage with the energy stored inside, well.. nothing happens. The Planar is also rapidly loosing more energy in the form of some liquid grayish-red liquid. This is just plain wrong. How do they regain energy on this plane then?

By now the Greater Deception is also clearly fading, leaving only three of the planars in it`s grip. Five of the others have regained their senses, and they are either readying their weapons, or gather them from the ground where they have fallen in the Deception-Induced Panic.

Luckily I am already at the immediate exit of this place, but the seven of them have surrounded me on the inside. Not that I would ever have been surrounded before, but this seems to be one of those dreaded planes where they don`t care about two-being-combat being the only percieveable choice of battle. A quick look outside reveals some brownish stalks with green tops to be in the vincinity, seemingly stretching a fair distance. As soon as I get drifting, they just might come in handy.

I am not sure how big the magical field that prevents us from drifting is, and that means those Planars just might make good on me...

Spoiler: Morthogg (click to show/hide)

Status:
26/26   Health
18/21   Strength
37 /56  Energy


Attributes:
Power:     4
Speed:     7
Health:     5
Will:         8
Intellect:  10


Skills:
Extraplanar Deciever - 15
Extraplanar Hunter - 10
Extraplanar Ruler - 5

Abilities:

Deception:
Medium Shapeshifting - Deception - 20 Energy, Ritual
I am able to assume a form similiar to mine. I will gain the natural abilities of this form, if it has any. The assumed form need not to exist in reality. Needs 1 Hour to be completed.
Deception - Deception - 4 Energy per affected being
I am able to decieve others, by confusing their senses. Every 3 Will or 5 Levels in Deception allow another being to be decieved without Malus.
Greater Deception - Deception - 10 Energy
I am able to decieve all in the vicinity. Needs physical contact with the object. Only one Sense will be affected.
Hunting
Cleaving Strike - Hunting - 3 Strength
Just as it sounds like. A very strong cleaving attack.
Sneaking Dash - Hunting - 1 Strength every 5 Meters
I approach my target somewhat soundlessly, but fast at the same time.
Ruling
Voice of Reason - Ruler - 2 Energy, 4 Strength
I am most proficient in proving my point.
Special Abilities
Mindspeaker - Extraplanar - Passive
While I have heard of other ways of communication, this one is common on my homeplane.